Jeremiah 19:9

Good News Translation

The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children.”

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

Isaiah 9:20

Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!

Jeremiah 13:14

Then I will smash them like jars against one another, old and young alike. No pity, compassion, or mercy will stop me from killing them.”

Jeremiah 38:9

“Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city.”

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!

Lamentations 4:10

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Leviticus 26:29

Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.